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From the Actors' Gang's The New Colossus, bringing together refugee stories, to East West Players' Allegiance, the Broadway musical based on George Takei's experience in the WWII internment camps for Americans of Japanese descent, to the Soraya's performances exploring the immigrant experience, L.A. theater is tackling the timely issue.

It wasn't just the city's sunshine mythology and seismic doom that had made their way into the new album. It was the city's position as a key geographic and cultural hub within greater Latin America, the city's history as a mecca of Mexican music and as a laboratory for experiments in Afro-Cuban dance music in East Los Angeles pasta restaurants, downtown ballrooms, Sunset Strip supper clubs and Hollywood soundstages.